
 Are Household Surveys Like Tax Forms: Evidence from the Self Employed

 April (2012)

 Erik Hurst, Li Geng, and Ben Pugsley
  
 Supplemental Materials

 Zip File Contents:

   Consumer Expenditure Survey, Data and Stata do Files
     1) cex_sample.do - builds CE sample from NBER/Aguiar and Hurst (2009) data 
    
     2) cex_tables_figures.do - produces CE based estimates for all tables and 
          other statistics in paper

     3) cex_engel_alt2.do - estimate demand system for luxury/necessities to test
          for systematic expenditure underreporting

     4) cex_sample.dta - CE sample produced by cex_sample

   Panel Study of Income Dynamics, Data and Stata do Files
     1) psid_results.do - produces PSID based estimates for all tables and other
          other statistics in paper

     2) psid_pw_robust.do - produces PSID estimates for Pissarides and Weber (1989)
          variance adjustments discussed in Robustness Appendix

     3) psid_engel_curves2.do - estimate non parametric Engel curve, and tests for 
          equality of slopes.

     4) reestimate_precaution - estimates of Carrol and Samwick (1998) importance of 
          precautionary savings, with and without underreporting adjustment using PSID
          and discussed in Robustness Appendix

     5) pool_8090 - PSID sample for precautionary savings estimates 
          from Hurst, Lusardi, Kennickell and Torralba (2010)

     6) psid1year.dta - 1 year PSID sample with annual income / expenditures

     7) psid3year.dta - 3 year PSID sample with rolling average of income and expenditures


   IPUMS 2000 Census 5% Sample, Stata do Files 
   (raw data available from IPUMS http://usa.ipums.org/usa/index.shtml)
     1) ipums_2000.do - read in raw data and produce estimates from section 6D





    

 



